Woman Applying Make-up by Ernst Neuschul

Art work details

Year of production :

1930

Artist:

Ernst Neuschul

Medium :

Oil painting

Materials:

Oil paint, Canvas

Dimensions :

height: 727 mm; width: 503 mm

Credit Line :

Donated by the artist’s sons, 2014

Copyright :

© The Artist’s Estate

Associated Groups :

Novembergruppe

Tags:

Portrait, Neuschul

The image of the woman applying her make-up is a powerful one. Painted in Berlin at the height of the Weimar years, it gives an insight into the changing fortunes of young metropolitan working women who, in the mid-1920s were achieving greater independence, creating and exploring new fashions, creativity and self-expression.

Neuschul studied in Prague and Vienna where he was fascinated by the unorthodox paintings of Klimt and Schiele and the Expressionist Kokoschka.